There was a hug crowd and this resulted in Mika Hakkinen getting stuck in traffic jams and missing the warm-up because he had to explain to police why he was driving down the wrong side of the road.

At the start of the race Patrese took the lead at the first corner but Mansell did not think much of that, retook the lead and duly drove away from the field to score another dominant victory. Patrese followed him and the fast-starting Brundle ran third for the whole afternoon, battling with his old Formula 3 rival Senna. Schumacher followed them but later had an incident and dropped behind Berger.

Senna eventually went out with a gearbox failure while his team-mate Berger ran into engine trouble and Schumacher moved up to fourth with Berger fifth and Hakkinen sixth.